Russell Hind wrote:

Peter Dimov wrote:

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No. 8.3 aliases are optional on NTFS and turning them off improves the performance of the file system, sometimes significantly.

Do you have any links to documentation on this (MSDN or whatever?) I didn't realise you could disable that feature and would be interested to read about the advantages/disadvantages of doing so.

Sorry, no link. Bit I have described the registry value for this in my other post. You also can use the "fsutil" command: fsutil.exe behavior query disable8dot3 queries your setting, and fsutil.exe behavior set disable8dot3 1 disables 8.3 alias generation. Jan